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Description: | Cornwall, [England] unknown An intriguing specimen, probably from William Hunter's original bequest. There is an old number stuck on, which may be "S.1" or similar, although it has been gone over in modern ink, which makes it hard to read properly. The specimen looks rather as though it has been dipped in, or sprinkled with gold dust - all the grains seem to be on the surface of other minerals rather than embedded in them, and many of the grains look rounded, as though alluvial. Although the museum catalogue gives the locality Cornwall, this is almost certainly wrong - the specimen looks more eastern European. Later notes suggest this, and that this may be Gold. No. 4 in the Trustees catalogue of 1794-7: " No. 4 Small irregular crystals of gold, sprinkled uopn quartzose crystals and Cubic Crystals of Pyrites, upon the surface of a mass of porous quartz" . | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | ELEMENT : SULPHIDE : MINERAL : FAKE : ORIGINAL BEQUEST : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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